Billings, Josh -- Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-02 (1876 ed.)

Dave — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:20:17 +0000

Kats are very humble, espeshily just after they hav committed sum nu kind ov deviltry.

[Cats are very humble, especially just after they have committed some new kind of deviltry.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-02 (1876 ed.)
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Lincoln, Abraham -- Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.

Dave — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:36:41 +0000

By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.
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WIST Quotations

Billings, Josh -- Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-02 (1876 ed.)

Lincoln, Abraham -- Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.